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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "I will consult on the issue of whether or not we should suspend the House. If we do, then you appreciate that we will need to extend the time accordingly. Your second issue is constitutional; it is on Article 216(5). Now, you should have read the whole article so that it flows about the flow of events. It states:- “The Commission shall submit its recommendations to the Senate, the National Assembly, the national executive, county assemblies and county executives.” As I sit here, I do not know whether it came or not, but I am certain that a report must have come to the Senate or to the Committee. However, I do not think that will stop us from debating the Division of Revenue Bill because it has gone to the National Assembly, and I want to assume that all the steps that were required to have been taken, including negotiations on the amounts, duly took place and that is how the Bill was passed at the National Assembly level. That is also how it came to us on 1st April and the reason why the Committee has now come up with a Report which we are going to debate as we debate the Bill in the Second Reading so that we can go to the Third Reading. So, if it is the desire of the House, we can make those copies very quickly and then we reconvene so that we can have time to read it. Hon. Senators, let me clarify this issue. The fact that there are no copies is not something that you can apportion blame on. As Sen. Musila would tell you – because he has been in this for a long time – you cannot make copies of a report until it is tabled. It has to be tabled first and only then can we make copies. This is because it has to show endorsement on it that it has been tabled. So, I am going to suspend the proceedings after I have listened to your points of order. I will listen to all of you until such time that we can then have a report that you have in front of you as we debate. What is your point of order, Sen. Billow?"
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